(A)
Each retirement system lobbyist and each employer
shall file with the joint legislative ethics committee, within ten days
following the engagement of a retirement system lobbyist, an initial
registration statement showing all of the following:

(1)
The
name, business address, and occupation of the retirement system
lobbyist;

(2)
The name and
business address of the employer or of the real party in interest on whose
behalf the retirement system lobbyist is acting, if it is different from the
employer. For the purposes of division (A) of this section, where a trade
association or other charitable or fraternal organization that is exempt from
federal income taxation under subsection 501(c) of the federal Internal Revenue
Code is the employer, the statement need not list the names and addresses of
every member of the association or organization, so long as the association or
organization itself is listed.

(3)
A
brief description of the retirement system decision to which the engagement
relates;

(4)
The name of
the retirement system or systems to which the engagement
relates.

(B)
In addition to the initial registration statement
required by division (A) of this section, each retirement system lobbyist and
employer shall file with the joint committee, not later than the last day of
January, May, and September of each year, an updated registration statement
that confirms the continuing existence of each engagement described in an
initial registration statement and that lists the specific retirement system
decisions that the lobbyist sought to influence under the engagement during the
period covered by the updated statement, and with it any statement of
expenditures required to be filed by section
101.93 of the Revised Code and any
details of financial transactions required to be filed by section
101.94 of the Revised
Code.

(C)
If a retirement system lobbyist is engaged by more
than one employer, the lobbyist shall file a separate initial and updated
registration statement for each engagement. If an employer engages more than
one retirement system lobbyist, the employer need file only one updated
registration statement under division (B) of this section, which shall contain
the information required by division (B) of this section regarding all of the
retirement system lobbyists engaged by the employer.

(1)
A change in any information required by
division (A)(1), (2), or (B) of this section shall be reflected in the next
updated registration statement filed under division (B) of this
section.

(2)
Within thirty days following the termination of an
engagement, the retirement system lobbyist who was employed under the
engagement shall send written notification of the termination to the joint
committee.

(E)
A registration fee of twenty-five dollars shall be
charged for filing an initial registration statement. All money collected from
registration fees under this division and late filing fees under division (G)
of this section shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the
joint legislative ethics committee fund created under section
101.34 of the Revised
Code.

(F)
Upon registration pursuant to this section, a
retirement system lobbyist shall be issued a card by the joint committee
showing that the lobbyist is registered. The registration card and the
retirement system lobbyist's registration shall be valid from the date of their
issuance until the thirty-first day of January of the year following the year
in which the initial registration was filed.

(G)
The executive director of the joint committee shall be responsible for
reviewing each registration statement filed with the joint committee under this
section and for determining whether the statement contains all of the required
information. If the joint committee determines that the registration statement
does not contain all of the required information or that a retirement system
lobbyist or employer has failed to file a registration statement, the joint
committee shall send written notification by certified mail to the person who
filed the registration statement regarding the deficiency in the statement or
to the person who failed to file the registration statement regarding the
failure. Any person so notified by the joint committee shall, not later than
fifteen days after receiving the notice, file a registration statement or an
amended registration statement that contains all of the required information.
If any person who receives a notice under this division fails to file a
registration statement or such an amended registration statement within this
fifteen-day period, the joint committee shall assess a late filing fee equal to
twelve dollars and fifty cents per day, up to a maximum fee of one hundred
dollars, upon that person. The joint committee may waive the late filing fee
for good cause shown.

(H)
On or before the fifteenth day of March of each
year, the joint committee shall, in the manner and form that it determines,
publish a report containing statistical information on the registration
statements filed with it under this section during the preceding
year.

(I)
If an employer who engages a retirement system
lobbyist is the recipient of a contract, grant, lease, or other financial
arrangement pursuant to which funds of the state or of a retirement system are
distributed or allocated, the retirement system
may consider the failure of the employer or the retirement system lobbyist to
comply with this section as a breach of a material condition of the contract,
grant, lease, or other financial arrangement.

(J)
Retirement system officials may require certification from any person seeking
the award of a contract, grant, lease, or financial arrangement that the person
and the person's employer are in compliance with this section.